NMC refuses to grant permission to begin MBBS course at Lakhimpur Medical College
Guwahati: It will still take a while for the Lakhimpur Medical College to start admitting MBBS students as recently, the Medical Assessment & Rating Board (MARB), operative under the National Medical Commission (NMC) has refused to grant permission to the Institute to begin its MBBS admission process from this year.
This comes after the MARB team after reviewing the Commission Assessor's report concluded that the medical college has a 26% faculty deficiency, lack of beds, incomplete infrastructure, etc.
However, the decision of not granting permission might be reconsidered by NMC if the deficiencies pointed out by MARB gets rectified, reports Sentinel Assam.
The State Government has been planning to make the Lakhimpur Medical College functional for some time now. Previously, the State Health Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sharma while handing over appointment letters to 210 nurses for Lakhimpur Medical Hospital at a function had announced that the medical college would start operating from November 2020.
As per the latest media report by Sentinel Assam, recently MARB assessed the infrastructural facilities of the medical college, its library, laboratories, hostels, hospital, faculty availability, experience, publications and residents/tutors, nursing and paramedical staff with other facilities available at the medical college. In order to do that, MARB reviewed the Commission Assessor's Report, review, and remarks by the expert groups regarding these things.
After studying these aspects, the MARB observed that the college has a 26% faculty deficiency. Apart from this, the Board noted that despite having a medical college it lacked an adequate number of beds, improvement was necessary for outdoor and indoor services, the college was yet to acquire a certificate from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, it had incomplete buildings, and other facilities including teaching aids, furniture at the lecture hall, etc.
Pointing out these deficiencies, MARB has written to the Principal of the medical college asking to rectify these inadequacies and create more amenities so that the medical college could be started. In fact, NMC may reconsider its decision and grant permission to the institute for MBBS admission from 2021-2022 academic year, if these flaws get rectified.
